This was not a great night. The Celtics completely abandoned their usual defensive principles and the Hawks tore them to shreds with pick and roll after pick and roll. Defensively the Hawks forced nearly two dozen Celtics turnovers that left the C’s scrambling for any semblance of an offense. Amazingly the Celtics were not only in this game, they held leads for most of it… but the Hawks pulled away late and went on to win 109-101
The first 3 minutes of this game was putrid… so bad that Mike Gorman quipped on air “have these guys met?